Black-winged pratincole

Black-winged pratincole
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Glareolidae
Genus: Glareola
Species:
G. nordmanni
Binomial name
Glareola nordmanni
Illustration by Johann Friedrich Naumann

The black-winged pratincole (Glareola nordmanni) is a wader in the pratincole bird family, Glareolidae. The genus name is a diminutive of Latin glarea, "gravel", referring to a typical nesting habitat for pratincoles. The species name commemorates the Finnish-born zoologist and explorer Alexander von Nordmann.[2]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Glareola nordmanni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22694136A90086476. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22694136A90086476.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 174, 274. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.